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Wisconsin Film Festival Titles

Following are a sampling of past Wisconsin Film Festival films that are owned by the library system. For a list of all films featured in the last few years, see the Wisconsin Film Festival's Archives.

                      

2009

Absurdistan (Russian)

All that Jazz

Ballerina (Russian)

Being Bucky

Cherry Blossoms (German)

Darius Goes West

The English Surgeon

Food, Inc.

Ghajini (Hindi)

Goodbye, Solo

The Illegal Use of Joe Zopp

In a Dream

JCVD

Kagemusha (Japanese)

Lake Tahoe (Spanish)

Momma's Man

Silent Night (German)

Stroszek (German)

Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3

Three Monkeys (Turkish)

Treeless Mountain (Korean)

Tulpan (Kazakh)

Winter of Frozen Dreams

2008

• All the President's Men
• Ben X (Dutch)
• Big Country
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop
• Edge of Heaven (German)
• Garbage Warrior
• Man of the Century
• My Man Godfrey
• Parting Glances
• Planet of the Apes
• Shotgun Stories
• Stuck
• Tuya's Marriage (Chinese)
• Turn the River
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

2007

• Air Guitar Nation
• 12:08 East of Bucharest (Romanian)
• Bamako (French)
• Boss of It All (Danish)
• Chalk
• Cinematographer Style
• Climates (Turkish)
• Close to Home (Hebrew)
• Collector of Bedford Street
• Diggers
• Everything's Gone Green
• Exiled (Cantonese)
• Family Law ( Spanish)
• Fay Grim
• Ghosts of Cite Soleil
• Gods and Monsters
• Grbavica ( Serbo-Croation)
• Great Match (Spanish)
• Henry Fool
• Into Great Silence (French)
• Killer of Sheep
• Linda Linda Linda (Japanese)
• Lion in Winter
• Madeinusa (Spanish)
• Man Push Cart
• Manufactured Landscapes
• Poison Friends (French)
• Rang de Basanti (Hindi)
• Rape of Europa
• Red Road
• Slanted Screen
• Something Like Happiness (Czech)
• Spirit of the Beehive (Spanish)
• Ten Canoes (Australian/Aboriginal)
• U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (Xhosa)
• War Dance
• Wristcutters: a Love Story
• Young Frankenstein

2006

• Aaltra (French)
• Almost brothers (Portuguese)
  Amu (Hindi)
• Awesome, I Shot That
• Beauty Academy of Kabul
• Been Rich all My Life
• Conventioneers
• Darwin's Nightmare
• Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romanian)
• El Inmigrante
• Favela Rising (Portuguesse)
• Forest for the trees (German)
• Gang's All Here
• Iron Island
• Isolation
• Journey from the Fall (Vietnamese)
• The King
• Lady Vengeance
• Laura (1944) 
• Little Fish  
• Lonesome Jim
• Look Both Ways
• Metal, a Headbanger's Journey 
• Mongolian Ping Pong (Mongolian)
• Music from the Inside Out
• Mutual Appreciation
• New York Doll
• Night of the Living Dorks
• Night of Truth (French)
• Our Brand Is Crisis
• Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
• President's last bang 
• Private (Arabic)
• Red Doors
• Shakespeare Behind Bars
• Sir! No Sir!
• Still life (Mandarin)
• Stolen Life (Mandarin)
• Syrian Bride
• Sweet Land
• Triviatown

2005

• 11-14
• Au Hasard Balthazar (French)
• Be Here to Love Me
• The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
• Brodre (Dutch)
• Childstar
• Cronicas (Spanish)
• Dandelion
• Daughter of Keltoum (Arabic)
• Double Dare
• Far Side of the Moon (French)
• Godfather of Green Bay
• Fuse
• Head-on (Turkish)
• In the Realms of the Unreal
• It's All Gone Pete Tong
• King of the Corner
• Kings & Queen
• Kontroll
• League of Ordinary Gentlemen
• Lipstick and Dynamite: First Ladies of Wrestling
• Lost Embrace (Spanish)
• Mister Foe
• NBT: Never Been Thawed
• Night and the City
• The Nomi Song
• Notre Musique
• Oldboy
• Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
• Real Dirt on Farmer John
• Shijie: The World (Chinese)
• Side Effects
• Somersault
• The Take
• Tell Them Who You Are
• Travellers and Magicians
• Vodka Lemon
• Wheel of Time
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

2004

• Ptu (Cantonese & Mandarin)
• Afro-Punk
• Angel on the Right (Tajik)
• The Agronomist
• Charlie: the Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
• The Corporation
• Divan
• Eyes Without a Face
• Festival Express
• The Fight
• The Five Obstructions
• Goodbye Dragon Inn
• Intermission
• James’ Journey to Jerusalem
• Ju-on: The Grudge
• Last Life in the Universe
• Noi Albinoi
• Patriot's Day
• Reconstruction (Danish and Swedish)
• S21: Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Khmer)
• Since Otar Left
• Slasher
• Stone Reader
• The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolian)
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
• The Yes Men
• Yossi and Jagger

2003

• Amandla!
• Bend it Like Beckham
• Better Luck Tomorrow
• Blackboards
• La Captive (French)
• Derrida
• Devils on the Doorstep
• Divine Intervention (Arabic and Hebrew)
• The Eye (Cantonese and Thai)
• Hard Day’s Night
• Kiss Me Stupid
• Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Morvern Callar
• Painted Fire (Korean)
• The Red Balloon
• Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time
• Robot Stories
• Satin Rouge (Arabic)
• The Sea (Hafith)
• Shaolin Soccer (Chinese)
• The Son (French)
• Spellbound (2002)
• Spun (VHS)
• Stevie (2002)
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger
• Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election
• The Weather Underground

2002

• 101 Reykjavik
• Amos Gitai: Images of Exile (series): Berlin Jerusalem; Esther; Golem the Spirit of Exile
• Big Bad Love
• Cool and Crazy
• Daresalam
• Daughter from Danang
• The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
• High Fidelity
• Home Movie
• Kandahar
• Kippur (Hebrew)
• A Little Princess (1995)
• Lola (1961)
• Manic
• Maya
• No Sleep Til Madison
• Our Song
• Promises
• The Sid Boyum Sculpture Project (VHS)
• Songs from the Second Floor
• That’s My Face
• Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
• The Times of Harvey Milk
• Trembling Before G_D
• Waydowntown
• What Time is it There? (Chinese)
• Y Tu Mama Tambien (Spanish)

2001

• American Chai
• Attack the Gas Station
• Bangkok Dangerous (Thai)
• Better Living Through Circuitry
• Blind Light
• Les Bonnes Femmes
• Calle 54
• Cane Toads: an Unnatural History
• Chunhyang (Korean)
• Foul King ( Cantonese & Mandarin)
• The Gleaners and I
• Hearts and Minds
• The Last Waltz
• The Natural History of the Chicken
• O! Su-jong (Korean)
• Performance
• The Price of Milk
• Rhyme & Reason
• Series 7 – the Contenders
• Suzhou River (Chinese)
• Taboo (Gohatto)
• The Terrorist (Tamil)
• Thomas In Love (French)
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
• A One and a Two (Chinese)

2000

• Chump Change
• Genghis Blues
• Grand Illusion (French)
• Re-Animator
• The Silence (Swedish)
• The Straight Story
• Trans
• Well-founded Fear
• Wisconsin Death Trip

Tribute to Walter Mirisch:

• The Apartment - Billy Wilder, 1960
• Fiddler on the Roof - Norman Jewison, 1971
• In the Heat of the Night - Norman Jewison, 1967
• The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges, 1960
• Same Time, Next Year - Robert Mulligan, 1978
• Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder, 1959
• West Side Story - Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961

1999

• Man of the Century
• The War at Home

updated 4/2009

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